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The 8th training for law enforcement personnel of the CIS countries took place in Minsk |
| Posted by admin (dpahtese) on 25/05/2010 at 19:02 |
The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Belarus and the IOM Minsk conducted the eighth 12-day training for law enforcement personnel of the CIS countries on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings: System Analysis, International Cooperation, and Best Practice, at the International Training Center (ITC) in Minsk.
Participants included 25 law enforcement practitioners from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, among them chiefs of counter-trafficking departments, senior operational officers, investigators and prosecutors.
The educational process involved recognised international experts and advisers, IOM staff, professors of the Academy of Interior, and Belarus' most notable practitioners. Lectures and presentations were delivered by a forensic expert, Doctor of Medicine from Serbia, project specialist from the IOM Mission in Turkey (Ankara), and the First Deputy Chief of International Judicial Cooperation of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Federation General Prosecutor's Office. Furthermore, representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and CIS Executive Committee participated as advisers.
The principal objective of the training was to enable practitioners to discuss and develop practical and operational recommendations to address identified criminal justice challenges as related to human trafficking crimes and establish direct contacts with their CIS colleagues. Special emphasis was put on cooperation among the CIS countries and identification of best practices from this perspective; facilitating the development of cooperative transnational mechanisms to more effectively criminalize and prosecute human trafficking.